Some Country for Old Men

Or in other words, she’s Walter Mondale!

HEY-O!

So hey, while everyone else in the world is writing about David Letterman and his baby mamas, we figured we’d throw a little more Sarah Palin news into the old SCFOM sausage grinder. Sure she’s got her fancy new graphic novel coming out (it’s even an Amazon best seller!), but the big Palin story of the day is actually courtesy of Steve Schmidt, John “Walnuts” McCain’s 2008 campaign manager (Note: Being Walnuts’ campaign manager doesn’t necessarily mean you know the first thing about presidential politics. Still, we’re going with it).

In an interview at the Newseum today, Schmidt spoke candidly about the ’08 VP nominee and, more importantly, what kind of presidential candidate he thought she’d be. Spoiler alert: BAD.

Oh, and nerd alert: this is all from The Atlantic:

Schmidt…said today that if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were to be the Republican nominee, it would be “catastrophic” for the Republican Party.”I think that she has talents, but my honest view is that she would not be a winning candidate for the Republican Party in 2012, and in fact, were she to be the nominee, we would have a catastrophic election result.”

Hmm, now maybe this is just sour grapes. Perhaps this is just Steve Schmidt still being angry over being in charge of a ticket featuring a semi-lucid cantankerous old man and dopey cougar whose sole qualification for anything was an ability to fire weapons from helicopters while simultaneously applying lipstick and not reading…anything…ever.

Or hey, maybe he can justify his prediction.

In the year since the election has ended, she has done nothing to expand her appeal beyond the base … The independent vote is going to be up for grabs in 2012. That middle of the electorate is going to be determinative of the outcome of the elections. I just don’t see that if you look at the things she has done over the year… that she is going to expand that base in the middle.”

Well, we don’t know where Steve Schmidt’s been, but we actually can remember some awesome things Sarah Palin did. For starters, she quit being governor for no reason at all…just up and left. If that doesn’t appeal to America’s fat unemployed masses, we’re not sure what will.

Regardless, we’re ready to jump on this bandwagon. Sarah Palin ’12! Go big or go home.